Guy Lutgen (19 April 1936 – 26 July 2020) was a Belgian politician and member of Christian Social Party. Lutgen was born in on 19 April 1936. He studied classic philology at the

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (; ) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968 ...

and taught history and Latin at the seminary in Bastogne until 1977. Lutgen began his political career in 1964, winning a seat on the

Bastogne Bastogne (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bastogne, Longvilly, Noville, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, and Wardi ...

communal council, which he retained until 2000. He was also mayor of Bastogne from 1976 to 2000. Between 1977 and 1995, Lutgen was a member of the

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, representing an electoral district encompassing

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, and

. His tenure within the

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began in 1980 and ended in 1995. From 1985 to 1988, Lutgen was secretary of state for modernization of public services. He subsequently served the

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as a minister. He led the agriculture and environmental ministry from May 1988 to July 1999, and was concurrently minister of energy, until January 1989. Lutgen retained the position of

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throughout, but took on duties at the housing ministry until January 1992, after which he assumed responsibility for natural resources until July 1999. His son

Benoît Lutgen Benoît Lutgen (born 10 March 1970) is a Belgian politician who served as head of the Centre démocrate humaniste (Humanist Democrat Centre) political party in Belgium from 2011 to 2019. Early life Benoît Lutgen was born on 10 March 1970 in Bast ...

is also a politician. Lutgen's other children are Françoise and Jean-Pierre. His daughter Christine died in 2009. Guy Lutgen died on 26 July 2020, at the age of 84.

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